Strange that in a year when it's been possible to watch more TV than ever, I've watched far less than ever. There's been nothing I've actually made a point of watching, other than Channel 4 News and the Countdown semi-finals and finals in the week just gone.
Lockdown has made me realise that certain channels just repeat certain programmes on a continuous loop throughout the whole year; ITV3 with Heartbeat, Frost, Morse, Lewis, Midsomer Murders, Poirot, etic. Channel 4 with Frasier. Good programmes though they were I must know the scripts of almost every episode off by heart.
More4 shows Come Dine With Me and Four in a Bed on a continuous loop as well; as soon as the series ends it immediately starts again with episodes from the first series ten years ago. What’s the point?
Genius though Ronnie Barker was I’m really not bothered about seeing all 26 episodes of Open All Hours every month.
New programming by both ITV and the BBC has got more and more moronic, particularly on a Saturday night with The Wheel being the latest cretinfest on the BBC; it must also be one of the most expensive shows the. BBC have ever made with seven “celebrities” every week of the “quality” and large fees of the likes of Joey Essex, Mel B, Gok Wan, Vanessa Feltz and Gemma Collins plus host Michael MacIntyre, It makes me wonder how much each of these seven celebrities gets paid for one episode: £10,000? £25,000? £50,000 each?
